Gautam Gambhir against the oval curator: the shot coach Sitanshu Kotak reveals the reason “silly” behind a heated conversation | Cricket news
Timesofindia.com in Manchester: India’s head coach, Gautam Gambhir, was involved in a verbal altercation with the pitch curator of the Oval Lee Fortis during the optional training session of India on Tuesday, before the last test match against England. The incident occurred when Indian quisors marked their breaks in the nets, leading to a public confrontation between the two.The situation intensified quickly before the coach of the strikers of India, Sitanshu Kotak, intervened to diffuse the tension by removing Fortis, while Gambir continued to express his dissatisfaction at a distance.India team coach Sitanshu Kotak revealed the reason for the heated argument.
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“When we looked at pitch, they asked us to keep us at 2.5 meters. We wear joggers. It was very strange. Looking at a counter with a rubber peak, nothing wrong. We see that the ground is not damaged. It is a land, no antiquity,” he told journalists.“The curator shouted to the support staff when he obtained an ice box. Gambir opposed this. The way he spoke Gambir. Everyone knows the oval curator is not the easiest person to manage,” he told journalists.The stick coach also said that India would not file any official complaint against the curator.The oval curator Lee Fortis presented his side of history and called the India coach “biting”. “You saw what he looked like this morning. He’s a bit delicate!”, He told journalists. “There is no side of the story. You will have to ask him,” he added. Fortis escaped several attempts to provide facts of what happened between him and Gambir. “I’m fine, we have nothing to hide here,” he said.Tensions have simmered throughout the series, spreading several times. It started with Lord’s, where Shubman Gill obviously expressed his dissatisfaction with the operators of England Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett who arrived almost 90 seconds late for their second round.The drama culminated in Manchester, where England, feeling an inevitable draw, proposed to finish early. However, Raviund Jadeja and Washington Sundar declined, both approaching personal milestones. Their decision was not suitable for Ben Stokes and his teammates, triggering a verbal spit on the field.The fifth and last test of the Anderson-Tendulkar trophy will start from Thursday.
